It's not much of a problem, and I'm puzzled why you're worried about "hate"... this is about as low-pressure a feature as we could ask for.
For a period of a few weeks, some eager residents will look a little weird to Firestorm users. No big-deal and entirely temporary. It's wholly optional, and once all viewers are BoM, it's mostly invisible.
Chill.
You are completely misunderstanding what i said.
I mentioned that its not an important feature but i noted that this isn't the first time nor will it be the last time we will wait for a big release.
"hate" was referring to the fact that i would be appearing as "broken" to all Firestorm users, telling them that it's a Firestorm problem, which could potentially heat their support channels (i heard they are basically burning already some days) which in turn would/could potentially draw a lot of negative attention to me (not from the users but the devs because i'm basically making their lives harder on purpose).
Also, you make it sound like unnecessarily delaying a feature "a few weeks" just like that isn't a big deal but in fact it is, not in this case but as already mentioned its a global issue. I'll say it once more, it's neither the first nor the last time this is going to happen and i think that fact is a big problem. This brings me back to my initial statement that it doesn't matter what we other devs do because in reality its all just depending on Firestorm. This can tie very much deeply into how content is created or if it is created at all. These unnecessary delays can basically ruin a lot of things... you may not care but i do.
There are quite a few really good, skilled content creators and seeing their work getting a downgrade or going to waste completely because of delays really hurts.
A good example for the above is with Orange Nova Avatars. Gordon started making a Fenra avatar years ago, when he was almost done with it and wanted to export it he ran into issues with Avastar which made him unable to export Fitted Mesh, sadly by that time the Avatar was already made to use Fitted Mesh and he didn't want to cripple his work by removing it so he delayed it to wait for Avastar to fix the export issues. Avastar had its fixes delayed to the full "remake" aka 2.0 release, which was QUITE a while after, in the meantime Gordon worked on projects without Fitted Mesh. When the issues were finally fixed he was working on a whole different avatar, which thankfully still got Fitted Mesh and Bento thanks to that, his Fenra however has been shelved seemingly forever now. If Avastar didn't delay this crucial fix for so long for no good reason this wouldn't have happened and that's just one example i got wind of, i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other content creators (specifically body makers) were hit with similar issues.
While yes in this case you could still use it even if you can't even see it working for yourself, why would you, be honest with you, if you were to make bodies and you were in this situation would you use BOM? No, you wouldn't, you would wait until everyone (namely Firestorm) has BOM as well.
Want another example from personal experience? My snapshot floater, it got heavy flak when it got into Firestorm, their users were running rampant. I decided to go for a second round and improve it based on their feedback, sadly the improvements were brought into the 360 snapshot viewer which you guessed it, got delayed (and will stay on ice for a while) and so did my improvements which have been on ice for what?.... 2....3? years? These improvements have been in my Viewer since day one and seeing their (Firestorm users) complains still boils my blood until today because they are no longer valid, they were fixed years ago and i still get flak for it when it is no longer true. What's even worse is i got locked out of the Jira leaving me with no way of telling them that their complains have been heard and were fixed, instead they are now praising Ansariel like Jesus's second coming because he "fixed" my "mess".
I wish i could just shrug it off as "just a few weeks". Heck if any of what i heard is true we are still at least a month away from a Firestorm update (if they hold true to their 1 month QA cycle) since they just recently merged the latest LL Viewer code which had quite a few landmines in there.